Quotes About Legacy

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important.

There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

I'm not here to make money, I'm here to make history.

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much for the past and not enough for the present and the near present.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

History is everything that has ever happened.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever!

History is the propaganda of the victors.

Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?